The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-26
BLESSED WITH TWO MOUTHS.
Yet the Ladies Do Not Love Him for
That Fact.
From he Netc York Tim :,

From the Ne,c York Tim IS.
They have got two-mouthed man up in
the Bowery. He is blonde young man,
with a smooth face and sort of sewer-gas
expression, who sits on a platform drinks
water with one mouth and simultaneously
smokes a cigarette with the other, and does
various other similar duets for the delecta-
tion of the mob. His upper mouth is in the
fashionable locality, and constitutes a me-
dunn sized aperture Immediately under his
nose and Immediately over his chin. His
other one is underneath his chin. The lower
one is not good for much, as he has had
brass lips fitted to it, and the two-headed
COW, who felt quite badly when he came,
has become reconciled after watching his
performances.
Otto Tolpefer is the man. In talk with
him yesterday Otto did not exhibit that sat
isfaction over his unusual blessings that
one might expect He said he was born
that way and couldn't help it. His folks
were poor, and he supposed it was sort of
congenital sarcasm on his parents, who al
ready had more mouths to fill than the lar
der was equal to. When Otto talks he uses
his upper mouth and shuts the lower one
with his finger. This gives him sort of
fageolet manner that is little trying. 1t
seem as if he were playing conversational
tunes on himself. The luxurious vista of
ecstasies conjured up by the idea of two
mouths Otto does not fulfill. He cannot
eat, except with the upper one, and he can
not talk very well with either Unless he
stops up the lower one i'll speaking, he is
forced to talk to whistling accompaniment
This does not take place because the lower
one is Jealous, but because the lower one
cannot help it. Moreover, the leak i'll
his tracheal bellows gives his
voice strange and unreal
whispering sound like that of a sexton at a
funeral. Instead of having the fair sex at
his feet, as might ignorantly be expected,
Otto is a lonesome bachelor. That kissing
tendency which Darwin observed through
all the scale of organic evolution, beginning
with the sumbeams that kissed the sea. is
discoverable i'll quite a number of Ottos
friends of the feminine gender, but still
they do not adore him. Whenever, in the
process of courtship, he has kissed anybody
with his upper mouth the lower one has
whistled This interruption appears to be
awkward and unpopular. His second mouth,
in fact, keeps close and envious watch on his
first and She sentimental bugle call spois
all his tender plans. He is resigned, how
ever, and now uses it simply to smoke ciga-
rettes with and play on kind of squeeze,
which combines the neurologic effect of the
mouth harmonica with slow and lingering
death by the accordion.
Otto is not pleasant object to gaze at
excessively, and as wall decoration he
would not succeed. The brass cap on the
unnecessary aperture in his windpipe gives
him a sort of Frankenstein look, and con-
veys the idea or chamois-skin lungs and q
morocco leather h,art He does not look
at all happy, and in comparison with him
the armless wonder, as he passes a forkload
of fried potatoes TO his mouth by aid of the
first and second toes of his right foot. is a
thing of beauty and joy for quite a while.